... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

The fact that you are attending church does not mean you are already serving the Lord

Three quarters of faith is boldness.Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence.Three quarters of love is kindness.

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.

When skies above were not yet namedNor earth below pronounced by nameThere was water...

Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Peace beings with me. The more peaceful I am inside, the more peace I have to share with others.

KEEP CALM and HAVE A SUGAR CUBE

I still got a few more dances with the devil...